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Maternal diet during pregnancy and lactation may prime offspring for weight gain and obesity later in life, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers, who looked at rats whose mothers consumed a high-fat diet and found that the offsprings' feeding controls and feelings of fullness did not function normally.

Scarlett Miller, assistant professor in the School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs and the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Jason Moore, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, were awarded a Research Project Grant of $698,178 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

After 24 years of service at Penn State Hershey, Dr. James Herman, Hershey Company Professor and chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, associate dean for primary care and primary care research, and director of the Center for Primary Care, will be leaving on May 29.

Although survival rates for many cancers have improved in recent years, the causes of childhood cancer are still not well understood. Prevention, detection and treatment for childhood cancer will be examined on the next episode of WPSU Penn State’s “Conversations LIVE” at 8 p.m. on March 26.

An interdisciplinary team of Penn State faculty, graduate student mentors and undergraduate students from the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering recently traveled to France to study systems engineering approaches to health care coordination.

More schooling -- and the more mentally challenging problems tackled in those schools -- may be the best explanation for the dramatic rise in IQ scores during the past century, often referred to as the Flynn Effect, according to a team of researchers. These findings also suggest that environment may have a stronger influence on intelligence than many genetic determinists once thought.

Implementing a well-established business approach allowed physicians to shave hours off pediatric patient discharges without affecting readmission rates, according to researchers at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital.

The Penn State Board of Trustees today (March 20) approved a proposal to bring the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and PinnacleHealth System together to form a new health enterprise under the umbrella of Penn State Health. In separate action today, the Board of Trustees appointed the first eight members of the Penn State Health Board of Directors.